Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Gives Kinsey Institute Photos to Teach About...
It’s a match made in sex-obsessed heaven: the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation has given 30 of the late photographer’s prints to the Kinsey Institute, reports Art in America. The Institute for Research...
View ArticleThe Onion Breaks News of Mapplethorpe Children’s Museum’s Grand Opening
According to the ever-reliable parody news site The Onion, the new Robert Mapplethorpe Children’s Museum opened in Queens yesterday, offering a whopping 200,000 square feet of interactive exhibits —...
View ArticleArt History’s Best Mustaches: Robert Mapplethorpe’s Chain- and Leather-Clad...
Inexplicably, as we near the end of our second annual month-long series highlighting art history’s best mustaches in observance of the male cancer awareness campaign Movember, we have yet to feature...
View ArticleOHWOW Snags Mapplethorpe Estate in L.A.
The estate of late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is now represented in Los Angeles by OHWOW gallery, per an announcement on Thursday morning. The gallery will work in partnership with the Robert...
View ArticleCincinnati Hosts Mapplethorpe Symposium 25 Years After Trial
In October of 1990, a jury acquitted Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and its director Dennis Barrie of obscenity charges — the cause, “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment,” a...
View ArticleRobert Mapplethorpe Biopic Casts Its Lead Actor
According to a report in the online Hollywood trade rag Deadline, a biopic is being developed around the life of the famous and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Documentarian Ondi...
View ArticleArtists Auction Work to Benefit Planned Parenthood
Barbara Kruger, “When was the last time you laughed?,” 2011. This September, dozens of art world figures are coming together for a benefit and art auction raising money for Planned Parenthood Los...
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